Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Kaddy Armstrong and Jackie
Speaker 1: and he Arms Ronge It's about empowering the American people.
Speaker 1: Go live from studio sing see signor a dimly lit
Speaker 1: room deeper than the bowels, the arms strugging getting communications
Speaker 1: compound in Today, Thursday, before Memorial Day weekend, we're under
Speaker 1: the tutelage of our general manager. Another celebrity death morning
Speaker 1: to death of fiscal Conservatism. It died at age two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine years. It is survived by its spouse, Federalism,
Speaker 1: which is also dying, and it's child concern for the future,
Speaker 1: which is extremely ill itself. Celebrity deaths coming threes.
Speaker 2: George went Fiscal Conservative, m or however you Sayward and Hey,
Speaker 2: Dolly Parton, I wouldn't get on a jet ski this
Speaker 2: weekend the grim reakers looking for a third Wow.
Speaker 1: Is Dolly the new Keith Richards or what? I don't
Speaker 1: know what's up with that? By the way, Speaking of
Speaker 1: ancient country songsters, Willie Nelson is touring. He played some
Speaker 1: of He's playing shows with Bob Dylan and the great,
Speaker 1: fabulous fifty years younger, Billy Strings. You think I don't
Speaker 1: know this. I think I'm going to Portland Saturday.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be staying a block away from where
Speaker 2: Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Billy Strings and whoever else it
Speaker 2: is are playing.
Speaker 1: And I thought, do I want to Is that what
Speaker 1: I want to do? I'm not sure if that's what
Speaker 1: I want to do or not. A good friend pronounced
Speaker 1: it a very enjoyable show. Willie's hanging on Willie Nelson
Speaker 1: and Bob Dylan. Eh, eh, that's what you'd hear a
Speaker 1: lot of. Yeah, maybe have Joe Biden come out and
Speaker 1: give a speech in between the sets, right, no kidding.
Speaker 2: So in the middle of the night, whilst you were asleep,
Speaker 2: the Republican Party passed the One Big Beautiful Bill. And
Speaker 2: as I heard one Republican come out and say, it's
Speaker 2: about empowering the American people. And whenever a politician says
Speaker 2: something like that, I think.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, what'd you just do? Right? Right? As I've
Speaker 1: said many many times, people don't offer up ridiculous arguments
Speaker 1: because they're keeping the good arguments fresh for later. It
Speaker 1: passed by one vote, which is all takes and one
Speaker 1: guy was saying, please don't shoot me. I have a family,
Speaker 1: Please don't shoot me.
Speaker 2: And then speaker Mike Johnson comes out and says, we
Speaker 2: got to get this tape, Hanson, if we don't have
Speaker 2: it already.
Speaker 1: But Mike Johnson comes out and says, this was a
Speaker 1: blow for conservatism, fiscal conservatism, living within your means.
Speaker 2: Nobody who's analyzed this looks at it that way. Nobody, right,
Speaker 2: all right, And it does include those salt deductions they
Speaker 2: updates would lock in a forty thousand dollars cap for
Speaker 2: state and local deductions. And Fox presented it as and
Speaker 2: it was also a win for Republicans in those blue
Speaker 2: states who are looking for tax relief.
Speaker 1: She said, with a happy smile on her face. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's three of them in the entire house, and all
Speaker 1: the rest of them got screwed the rest of us
Speaker 1: in the whole country. So now don't say that with
Speaker 1: your smiley face to me. And look, it's all due
Speaker 1: to respect to anybody you know in the business or
Speaker 1: listening or whatever. I have no interest in mindless cheerleading
Speaker 1: for yea my side, boo the other side, you know,
Speaker 1: that's what you're looking for. I apologize humbly and deeply,
Speaker 1: not like a Jake Tapper apology, I mean a real
Speaker 1: one that we can't give you what you're looking for,
Speaker 1: but you know we're gonna, you know, to call them
Speaker 1: as we see and speak to true Wall Street journalists.
Speaker 2: Other Republicans got to win and being able to hold
Speaker 2: onto their green energy products projects. Oh great, so they
Speaker 2: balance the salt reductions, which screw everybody in America pretty
Speaker 2: much but New York, New Jersey, in California. And then
Speaker 2: you are not a fiscal concern. You are not rhino
Speaker 2: is thrown around too much. You are a rhino if
Speaker 2: you were holding up your vote because you want to
Speaker 2: hang onto your fanciful green energy projects just because it
Speaker 2: brings money into your state.
Speaker 1: Right you're a Democrat. Yeah. Now, I tell you what.
Speaker 1: The one defense that I would listen to, and I
Speaker 1: would say, wow, okay, is if Mike Johnson came to
Speaker 1: me and he said, all right, listen, brother, h here's
Speaker 1: all the polling we do. We spend millions of dollars
Speaker 1: on this constantly. We're in flu districts, red districts, swing districts,
Speaker 1: and here's the deal. Fiscal conservatism is a loser. We
Speaker 1: run on it, we lose every election, and we can't
Speaker 1: do any of the good stuff you like, none of it.
Speaker 1: I would like to hear that set out loud, though
Speaker 1: it's the truth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like to hear that set out to
Speaker 2: and it it might be one hundred percent correct that
Speaker 2: you'd say, look, you can't win on fiscal conservatism. This
Speaker 2: is better than if the Democrats did their big bill,
Speaker 2: if they had made I.
Speaker 1: Mean, look at the horrors unleashed during the Biden administration crisis.
Speaker 1: If this, we're pissed off that they're keeping some of
Speaker 1: the drip going of the the Green new scam that
Speaker 1: was so horrifying, as opposed to you know, a new
Speaker 1: uh Kamala Harris administration, which would be you know, pouring
Speaker 1: more trillions of dollars out the door. So I get
Speaker 1: that it's better one hundred percent, but it's still frustrating. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to claim that it's good news. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna I'm not gonna do that. And good news
Speaker 1: for those Republicans in blue states. Oh, good lord, that's disgusting.
Speaker 1: It is discussed. It was that that, all right. I
Speaker 1: don't want to said anybody, What am I thinking? I
Speaker 1: offend people every single day? What was it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: You know, it's a look I feel like as a spouse,
Speaker 1: the deal is your wife's gonna keep cheating on you
Speaker 1: with the neighbor, but she's agreed not to do it
Speaker 1: in front of you anymore. And I'm supposed to drop
Speaker 1: to my knees and say I have a grades and
Speaker 1: a healthy marriage. Ah no, that's not the case. Good lord,
Speaker 1: the kids, the grandkids were spending their money. Plus, nobody
Speaker 1: cares about this. I'll stop shouting. I'm giving myself an
Speaker 1: aneurysm for no good reason. Like there's an extra twelve
Speaker 1: billion dollars for the border. That's something or other that
Speaker 1: I'm sure is a good idea. Oh there's lots of
Speaker 1: great stuff. Yeah, I'm sure there's two.
Speaker 2: But how about this, an indoor tanning excise tax that
Speaker 2: was eliminated in the original bill would be maintained.
Speaker 1: What about my right to be slightly browner? Huh? What
Speaker 1: is that? An indoor exercise tax? Some sort of break
Speaker 1: for tanning places? You know the founding fathers would chuck
Speaker 1: tanning beds and Boston Harbor. Federal land swaps in Novetta
Speaker 1: and Utah would be eliminated. We'll give you Eli if you'll.
Speaker 2: Take whatever that where all the multiple wive people are
Speaker 2: you take that, We'll take you.
Speaker 1: I don't want to impunity particular Utah hamlets that may
Speaker 1: or may not have alternative lifestyles going on. Good gracious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So whatever, Then it goes, as Joe pointed out yesterday,
Speaker 2: it needs to it needs to be pointed out. It
Speaker 2: goes to the Senate immediately. It's already going to the Senate,
Speaker 2: and the Republicans do have a fifty three forty seven
Speaker 2: majority there, so they got a little more wiggle room
Speaker 2: to be able to lose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to be able to lose some of the holdouts.
Speaker 1: You know, I just had a weird philosophical thoughts. You
Speaker 1: want to finish the nuts and bolts, I mean, finish
Speaker 1: the issue with my weird philosophical Yeah, well finish this
Speaker 1: one sentence. Apparently the fiscal conservative is already leaning on
Speaker 1: their fiscal concers servative colleagues in the Senate to try
Speaker 1: to you know, nudget further that direction. And we'll see
Speaker 1: if that happens or not. I would hope. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: little progress is better than none. But here's my weird
Speaker 1: philosophical thought. I was about to say something to the
Speaker 1: effect of, you know, if if you know, back in
Speaker 1: maybe Reagan's day, maybe uh Bush two, when he was
Speaker 1: in office, the you know what the Congress was doing
Speaker 1: and the deficits and which are quaint by today's standards.
Speaker 1: Human beings always want to know the future, you know,
Speaker 1: time machine, crystal ball, whatever. If somebody had troll guards
Speaker 1: board right right exactly, if somebody had told you twenty
Speaker 1: five years ago how bad it was gonna be, it
Speaker 1: would have driven you insane. You'd have been like, no,
Speaker 1: that's impossible. The Republicans at both houses and the White House,
Speaker 1: and they make it worse. Why who's in charge? Who
Speaker 1: got elected? What happened?
Speaker 2: I mean, it would make you insane. Ugh, let's start
Speaker 2: the show officially. Then we got plenty of to talk
Speaker 2: about today. There's a bob.
Speaker 1: I was about to say something negative, and we don't
Speaker 1: want another negative thing. Too much negative. It's thinking through it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I got something positive I'll come up
Speaker 1: with today. Is I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 1: It is Thursday, May twenty second. We're heading into Memorial
Speaker 1: Day weekend. Here real quickly, you're twenty twenty five. We
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Speaker 1: at Mark.
Speaker 4: The trial of Sean Diddy Combs is happening in New York.
Speaker 1: They put his former.
Speaker 4: Assistant on the stand, who said a lot of interesting things,
Speaker 4: including that he was given a list of items did
Speaker 4: he required in his hotel rooms? Included his clothes, toiletries,
Speaker 4: a medicine bag, Fiji water, apple sauce, and Jello. Wow, first, Cosby,
Speaker 4: now did he these people at Jello really can't catch
Speaker 4: a bread?
Speaker 1: Camera, boy, that's an obscure reach. We've got a present
Speaker 1: of the audience remembers that Bill Cosby pitched Jello. There's
Speaker 1: been a whole bunch of stuff in the Didty trial
Speaker 1: over the last several days that we didn't talk about
Speaker 1: because there was other news going on. So we've got
Speaker 1: a big Diddy trial update to catch you up on
Speaker 1: the strangeness that has happened, the various things that we've
Speaker 1: learned over the last several days. So we'll do that
Speaker 1: a little bit later.
Speaker 2: That was if you liked the NBA, and I do
Speaker 2: among the best games I've ever seen in my entire life.
Speaker 2: Last night Nick Pacers and overtime just freaking unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Five players with over thirty points, which has never happened before.
Speaker 1: Some defense it was. It was absolutely amazing. Look, well,
Speaker 1: what was that stat? I gotta find it. I was
Speaker 1: reading about it. I didn't watch it because I'm not
Speaker 1: really into the NBA. But the Pacers were down fourteen
Speaker 1: was three two forty two minutes and twenty seconds left. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which has happened nine hundred and sometimes in NBA history,
Speaker 1: and the number of teams that have overcome that deficit
Speaker 1: to tie or win is exactly zero until last night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: first time anybody had ever come back fourteen points with
Speaker 1: two forty five left, and the shot at the buzzer
Speaker 1: toscend it to overtime, went in the air like thirty feet.
Speaker 1: It hit the front of the rim, bounces straight up
Speaker 1: in the air. All of Madison Square Garden, the world's
Speaker 1: most famous arena, all the celebrities, everybody there packed ful
Speaker 1: wood as the ball went way up in the air, paused,
Speaker 1: came down right through the net, and everybody went bursts.
Speaker 1: Zirk because it was a game and they went in overtime.
Speaker 1: It was very exciting. It was like a movie. I
Speaker 1: mean that last shot it was kind of went up
Speaker 1: slowly and you put the camera on everybody's open mouths
Speaker 1: and somebody chewing popcorn. Okay too much? Does it go
Speaker 1: in or not? Get to it?
Speaker 5: Boy?
Speaker 2: So we've got Katie's headlines on the way and lots
Speaker 2: of stuff to catch you up on Trump's gonna take
Speaker 2: that plane.
Speaker 1: You mentioned George H. W.
Speaker 6: Bush.
Speaker 2: That's who first had the plane Trump is currently flying in.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that our president of the United States
Speaker 2: is flying around in a forty year old plane.
Speaker 1: What all the money we spend and throw around a
Speaker 1: president's flying around a forty year old playing with that anyway?
Speaker 1: Much on the way stay right here.
Speaker 2: Among my Memorial Day weekend plans taking the kids to
Speaker 2: the A's game tomorrow night, Oakland A's who play in
Speaker 2: West Sacramento, California, in a ballpark that holds about twelve
Speaker 2: thousand people.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. If you're traveling around the country and get
Speaker 1: a chance to see your favorite team in West Sacramento,
Speaker 1: you should do it. You've never had seats that good
Speaker 1: for a Major League baseball game. Oh yeah, yeah, check
Speaker 1: your team's schedule. If they're playing the A's, go to
Speaker 1: go see them. It's really quite amazing and inexpensive too. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we've got a huge, action packed show as usual. Let's
Speaker 1: figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Speaker 1: Katie Green.
Speaker 3: Katie starting with Fox News to Israeli embassy staffers shot
Speaker 3: dead outside of DC event suspect yell free Palestine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's one of those freaking jobs, uh, egged on
Speaker 1: by college campus jobs all across the hundred. Yeah. I'm
Speaker 1: told by one of our beloved listeners that on our
Speaker 1: home station, the Network News ran the story and ended
Speaker 1: with a Palestinian supporter saying, yeah, well, genocide is this
Speaker 1: is what happens when Yeah wow, yes, I'm yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: Second well, along with that from the New York Post,
Speaker 3: anti israel protesters spark chaos outside of Columbia University graduation
Speaker 3: with diploma burning and aggressive chance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, chant to wait, morons. I'll tell you this because
Speaker 1: I'm fired up about this. There's a lot of media
Speaker 1: these days that's struggling a little bit for revenue. Things
Speaker 1: have changed consolidation blah blah blah. And they've got a
Speaker 1: lot of like young people who don't get a ton
Speaker 1: of supervision by the old hands in the business this
Speaker 1: and say they're just working that they don't work anymore. Well,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, they've been uh, you know, relegated to
Speaker 1: the old hand dump heep. And so these these you know,
Speaker 1: Columbia journalism grads just do what they want in America's newsrooms.
Speaker 1: You think that some of that network news is carefully
Speaker 1: planned by the best people in the bed. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's please, it's a skeleton crew churning out lefty crap
Speaker 1: and I hate it.
Speaker 2: Anti Semitism, including violence, is way too accepted in America
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Agreed from the Washington Post.
Speaker 3: Good Pope Leo mediate between Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Trump thinks, so he can try. See here's the problem.
Speaker 1: Putin has no interest in stopping unless somebody makes him,
Speaker 1: and nobody seems to be interested in making him, and
Speaker 1: nobody's being honest about it, including Trump. I don't get
Speaker 1: it at all, Old Pope Leo, God bless him. Literally. Uh,
Speaker 1: he might as well try to mediate between oil and water.
Speaker 1: What does that even mean?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Oil and don't mix. I get right right, it's futile effort.
Speaker 1: Back to you. From Daily Mail.
Speaker 3: China's drone mothership weapons aircraft with eighty two foot wingspan
Speaker 3: can fly for twelve hours and launch one hundred kamakazi
Speaker 3: UAVs in seconds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this fits in with your thing yesterday about how
Speaker 1: if all the cell phones and energy thing and everything
Speaker 1: turns off at once, you won't be surprised. Ninny's drones
Speaker 1: dropping out of the sky right from the Associated Press.
Speaker 3: Bored with manicured lawns, homeowners adopt no mo may what.
Speaker 1: No, they're not, Oh, they are not. They are trend
Speaker 1: Take trend.
Speaker 3: From study fines Your blood and urine can show just
Speaker 3: how much junk food you're really eating.
Speaker 1: Wow, I should do that test. That would be an
Speaker 1: eye opener. Jack has your urine is the color of cheetos.
Speaker 1: Probably eat too much junk food. Sixty six donut.
Speaker 3: And finally from the Babylon Bee, Trump forces South African
Speaker 3: president to watch entirety of Home alone.
Speaker 1: Two. I think I've I think I've gained eight pounds
Speaker 1: with whooping cough. Wow, partner steroids steroids, combination of that
Speaker 1: and h having to eat with medicine, eating outside my
Speaker 1: normal uh intermittent facet window to be able to take
Speaker 1: all my medicines, and just feeling crappy all the time,
Speaker 1: so we eat more crap. Yeah, well, and it's not
Speaker 1: like you're about to go out for a run, correct,
Speaker 1: Thanks whooping cough, you bastard, got some more analysis of
Speaker 1: the big beautiful bill that passed overnight.
Speaker 2: But anyway, do you want to be depressed? You ought
Speaker 2: to be horrendous horror. You ought to be informed. That's
Speaker 2: how I'll justify it. Yeah, bark art orders at the audience.
Speaker 2: That'll work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's maybe trying to focus on the positive. If
Speaker 1: you can find some you let me know and I
Speaker 1: will focus all my attention on it, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5: According to your study, nearly two in three Americans think
Speaker 5: frugality is an attractive trait.
Speaker 1: And oh yeah, and the.
Speaker 5: Majority of Americans said using a coupon on a date
Speaker 5: is perfectly acceptable. Oh yeah, coupons are hot, y'all. And
Speaker 5: if you're feeling freaky, maybe a groupon maybe all of
Speaker 5: us should take the pottery class.
Speaker 2: You know, speaking of fiscal conservatism and the Big beautiful Bill,
Speaker 2: and there's no appetite for caring about spending because the
Speaker 2: population doesn't care about the fives on a date and
Speaker 2: she pulls out a cop Hey, I've got a coupon
Speaker 2: for this, save us half. I would think, oh my god,
Speaker 2: this is the greatest woman ever. But if you, as
Speaker 2: the dude, were to do that, I think the reaction,
Speaker 2: I think the reaction should be the same way.
Speaker 1: Oh good, you don't waste money. Fantastic, Wow, Wow I
Speaker 1: could not disagree more. Terrible, terrible blunder. Katie has a
Speaker 1: different opinion. She's a female.
Speaker 3: Yeah what why is that a terrible thank you? Why
Speaker 3: is that a terrible blunder?
Speaker 1: Oh? It just shows a cheapness, lack of commitments. I
Speaker 1: don't care enough about to pay full price. Does it
Speaker 1: you need more or less cheapness? Oh? You're both so wrong.
Speaker 1: I bust out a coupon. Hey, it's Bogo night, sweetheart. Please,
Speaker 1: it's over before it began.
Speaker 3: If the guys them up, if the guy's taking you
Speaker 3: out to dinner, it doesn't matter how it gets paid for,
Speaker 3: whether there's a coupon or a gift card.
Speaker 1: She wants it into the bill, don't attention? Allright? Beautiful
Speaker 1: coming up? Naming names. Who was the inner circle covering
Speaker 1: up Joe Biden's sinility. Let's know, these people's names stay
Speaker 1: with us, so we'll get into this more later. Probably
Speaker 1: this horrifying story last night Washington, DC, around nine o'clock
Speaker 1: at night.
Speaker 2: A couple, a young couple who were gonna get engaged
Speaker 2: real soon. He was going to propose to her in
Speaker 2: Jerusalem soon murdered by a freaking nut job to Israeli
Speaker 2: embassy staffers there in Washington, d C. Right outside the
Speaker 2: Capitol Jewish Museum. And the guy then walks into the museum.
Speaker 2: People don't realize he's the shooter. He stands around for
Speaker 2: a while, then pulls a kafia out of his pocket,
Speaker 2: starts waving it around and chanting Free, Free Palestine.
Speaker 1: And then they arrest him and lead him off.
Speaker 2: And I heard some news report where they're trying to
Speaker 2: decide whether to sue this as.
Speaker 1: A hate crime or terrorism. I don't understand any of
Speaker 1: those particulars. You murder people in cold blood, the penalty
Speaker 1: should be so high that the particulars of what kind
Speaker 1: of reason it wasn't I don't even get it. I
Speaker 1: would agree completely, one hundred percent. I understand in theory
Speaker 1: the nature of terrorism is an organized political tool. We
Speaker 1: need to squelch that as quickly and forcefully as we can.
Speaker 1: But don't we feel that way about all murder? Right?
Speaker 1: Gunning down?
Speaker 2: So there is a lesser penalty for gunning down a
Speaker 2: young couple in love standing on a street corner if
Speaker 2: you didn't do it for political reasons, that you just
Speaker 2: wanted their.
Speaker 1: Money, that's wrong. AnyWho. John Podohor I can't say his name,
Speaker 1: do you say it? Poter Hurtz.
Speaker 2: He writes for The New York Post, and he runs
Speaker 2: commentary magazine, and I listen to his podcast almost every
Speaker 2: single day. He wrote, what we're going to see over
Speaker 2: the next couple of days is predictable. Jewish institutions are
Speaker 2: going to scramble to increase security as Jews huddled together
Speaker 2: for comfort, and as the hours and days pass, the
Speaker 2: shooting will be analyzed by the mainstream with an eye
Speaker 2: toward explaining the root causes of the crime and the
Speaker 2: criminal's motivations, getting to the terrorism and hate crime, which
Speaker 2: is to say, a search for a way to excuse well.
Speaker 2: Hear that the real danger in the wake of this
Speaker 2: monster sac will be a rise in Islamophobia, rather than
Speaker 2: this event is the culmination of the past eighteen months
Speaker 2: of open antisemitic and jew hating action in the streets
Speaker 2: of major cities and on campuses of our most prestigious
Speaker 2: academic institutions.
Speaker 1: And we Jews will be arming ourselves, says John. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the first outlet I hear or see with an anti
Speaker 1: Muslim bias is also a problem these days. Right, I
Speaker 1: don't know what, Well, what I would like to do
Speaker 1: would go against my every principle, but yeah, just wait
Speaker 1: for it. It's coming.
Speaker 2: If you're a hate leaning half a nut job anyway,
Speaker 2: and you watch what's being accepted across the country, how
Speaker 2: does that including.
Speaker 1: In our elite institutions, right, right? And then excused by
Speaker 1: most of the media that you watch. All right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: wasn't this guy's last name? I want to get it right, Rodrigers,
Speaker 1: wasn't it? Yeah, something like that. I was gonna say, Rodriguez. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's going to cause me anti Muslim bias. What
Speaker 1: is his name, Mohammed Rodriguez. Well he was chanting free,
Speaker 1: free Palestine. Well, yeah, I'm anti moron. I have anti
Speaker 1: moron bias. Yeah, anti radicalized because you've been fed a
Speaker 1: grossly oversimplified, one sided, you know, version of events. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got bias against that. Goodness sakes, all right, Michael Toothy,
Speaker 1: do you have more on that, Jack or are you not?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: We'll get into it a little bit more later. It's
Speaker 1: change a plan Mychael number one some transition music. Then
Speaker 1: we'll use the two Peter Doocey clips sixty one and
Speaker 1: sixty two plays some transition too too jommering to transition
Speaker 1: without it. They'll be back with you just a moment, folks.
Speaker 1: Is this just a saxophone, bass, guitar and drum? I
Speaker 1: think that's just a Is that a trio? There's electric
Speaker 1: piano or organ in there? I guess you're yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And in fact, I think the keyboard riffing there is
Speaker 1: play that again, Michael, I think that the keyboard riffing
Speaker 1: is deceptively simple.
Speaker 2: They're playing in the little grassy area this Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 2: You got a border's books here, and you got a
Speaker 2: little place here, you get some sort of little thing,
Speaker 2: and then there's a yoburt place and then they're playing.
Speaker 1: Music right here. Kids are throwing water balloons at each
Speaker 1: other over there in the distance. Yeah, So, I tell
Speaker 1: you what, there is just no disputing Jake Tapper's credentials
Speaker 1: as a Joe Biden is not senile defender. Over the
Speaker 1: last several years, a handful of journalist stickeout lights, including
Speaker 1: the Free Beacon, have compiled just exhaustive lists of all
Speaker 1: the times the Tapper not only you know, it was
Speaker 1: a skeptical listener if people claimed this or the other,
Speaker 1: But no, he was so obviously aggressively a defender of
Speaker 1: Biden's mental acuity. It is truly hilarious he's doing what
Speaker 1: he's doing. We need to name some names before we
Speaker 1: do that. Let's hear the two Peter Doucey clips Michael.
Speaker 6: One in a time sixty one, there was a fear
Speaker 6: in the room that asking a hard question about the
Speaker 6: president's acuity, about his mental fitness, could mean a loss
Speaker 6: of access. But based on everything that we have learned now,
Speaker 6: nobody had access. It was the president and a handful
Speaker 6: of aids that were with him for fifty years up
Speaker 6: in the residence with the first lady and the first son,
Speaker 6: and that was it.
Speaker 1: And I guess Peter Deucey go ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say, I gotta say, if you're a
Speaker 2: journalist that's afraid to ask a question, a tough question
Speaker 2: because they'll get mad cut off access, then stop being
Speaker 2: a journalist and go do something else.
Speaker 1: That's what your freaking job is. But if you get
Speaker 1: shut out completely, you can't do your job at all.
Speaker 1: But then you need to make a noise about that.
Speaker 1: But all journalists, if your job is not to go
Speaker 1: in and ask the hard question about the touchy issue,
Speaker 1: what's the point? You have a point. But so Peter
Speaker 1: Doocey couldn't possibly have known about Biden's senility because he
Speaker 1: didn't have inside sources that talk to him. Later, according
Speaker 1: to Jake Taffer, listen to this next clip.
Speaker 6: Something that I do before I go into these White
Speaker 6: House briefings. I kind of try to take a poll
Speaker 6: everywhere I go, at the grocery store, at the airport.
Speaker 6: And the one thing everybody that I met wanted to
Speaker 6: know while I was on the Biden beat was.
Speaker 1: Is he okay?
Speaker 6: I saw this clip, there's saying it's a cheap fake.
Speaker 6: What is going on with this guy?
Speaker 1: So two hundred and forty million Americans were fully recognizing
Speaker 1: his enility, But to escape Jake Tapper and his crew.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine. One thing that was pointing out yesterday
Speaker 2: I thought was really good is this. So Jake Tapper
Speaker 2: on Megan Kelly the other day we played some of
Speaker 2: these clips. He said, the Conservatives had this right and
Speaker 2: we had it wrong. There's nothing like that anywhere in
Speaker 2: the book.
Speaker 1: So you got shamed into saying that in the last
Speaker 1: two weeks. Wow, on this press tour, that's not going
Speaker 1: the way I think you thought it was going to go.
Speaker 1: But you didn't come to that conclusion and put it
Speaker 1: in your book at all. That's significant. Oh, of course
Speaker 1: it is. It absolutely is. But whose posters should be
Speaker 1: up on America's Post Office wall as the most wanted
Speaker 1: cover uppers of Biden's enility? And it's it's worse than
Speaker 1: that too, obviously, because they were running the country, no joke,
Speaker 1: the great Kim Strassel the Wall Street Journal writing about
Speaker 1: all the die all of the denials, and I didn't
Speaker 1: notices and all that. The lucky Democrats are those who
Speaker 1: had limited contact with Biden were excusing their prior claims
Speaker 1: of his good health on situational grounds as in well
Speaker 1: a few times I was with him. He was fine,
Speaker 1: and there are plenty of these, She writes, since original
Speaker 1: sin the Taper Book confirms that as time went by,
Speaker 1: Biden's handlers walled off the president. But we are at
Speaker 1: least now hearing the names of the handlers who worked
Speaker 1: to keep Biden's frailty secret, and anecdotes of other players
Speaker 1: who were clearly presented evidence that there was a problem,
Speaker 1: yet did nothing. Let's take stock number one, Jack, no surprise,
Speaker 1: Jill Biden, the President's wafered all the questions, Joe, you
Speaker 1: know all the fact the president's wife was not shy
Speaker 1: about her ambition to occupy the White House for a
Speaker 1: full eight years. Interviewed by the New Yorkers David Remnick,
Speaker 1: author Thompson Alex Thompson recounts, I'm gonna put it within
Speaker 1: the family. All presidents run for two terms. The first
Speaker 1: lady's already plotting what are we going to do in
Speaker 1: the second term, very very early on. Oh your jello,
Speaker 1: and you didn't make boo boo in your pants. Joe, Joe,
Speaker 1: you just such a great job.
Speaker 3: You answered every question you ask.
Speaker 1: He says that missus Biden was viewed as the head
Speaker 1: protector and that Biden aids described her as quote, one
Speaker 1: of the most powerful First Ladies in American history. Thompson
Speaker 1: reported last summer that bought Missus Biden and her top aid,
Speaker 1: Anthony Bernall, went so far as to separate the president
Speaker 1: from the White House residents staff, walking butler's and other
Speaker 1: household workers from interacting with Joe.
Speaker 2: I was just reading the chapter this Bernal guy who
Speaker 2: became one of the most powerful people in the White House,
Speaker 2: and he was close with Jill Biden. If he got
Speaker 2: on the wrong side of him, you were in, you
Speaker 2: were out. You were on the out. So you could
Speaker 2: not cross her.
Speaker 1: And she was protecting her husband, so he was He
Speaker 1: was a big gatekeeper. And of course Kim Strassel points
Speaker 1: out that family members are the most likely to see
Speaker 1: mental decline and recognize it. And so the former First Lady,
Speaker 1: who even today insists her husband is fine on the
Speaker 1: view which is just insane, made sure the number of
Speaker 1: people who could personally witness his behavior was as low
Speaker 1: as possible. The aides A picture is forming of that
Speaker 1: handful of aids trusted by the Biden family to act
Speaker 1: as intermediaries between Biden and the world to limit his
Speaker 1: exposure and squelch any questions about his health. They include
Speaker 1: bernal Ron Klaine, who was the chief of staff until
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Bruce Reed and Annie Thomasini, deputy chiefs
Speaker 1: of staff, Mike Donellan and Steve Roschetti advisors especially on
Speaker 1: the campaign. They're the guys who had, as strongly suspected,
Speaker 1: were feeding Biden fake poll numbers to convince him he
Speaker 1: could win that National security officials Jake Sullivan and Anthony
Speaker 1: Blinken quote from a Biden cabinet secretary and original sin quote,
Speaker 1: I've never seen a situation like this before. This is
Speaker 1: the key, folks, right here. This is what turns it
Speaker 1: into a giant, historic scandal. I've never seen a situation
Speaker 1: like this before with so few people having so much power,
Speaker 1: they would make huge economic decisions without calling Treasure Secretary Yellen.
Speaker 1: Evidence is meanwhile surfacing that these aids didn't just hide
Speaker 1: Biden from the public, they hid information from Biden, including
Speaker 1: the reality of how many elected Democrats wanted him out.
Speaker 1: And then she mentions Kevin O'Connor, Biden's personal physician, who
Speaker 1: repeated over and over again that he does not need
Speaker 1: a cognitive test. He is great. I see him every day.
Speaker 1: He's cognitively capable. Listen, he's doing the job.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: I got way more on this examples from the book,
Speaker 2: but we are out of time of when Jill really
Speaker 2: started to flex her muscles and realize she needed to
Speaker 2: take charge.
Speaker 1: And it's amazing she got away with it. Yep, she
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Speaker 2: There are more examples from the Jake Tappers book that
Speaker 2: are amazing. But we're still so far from anybody taking
Speaker 2: ownership of letting this happen in the media.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're not within one hundred miles of it,
Speaker 1: and may never be. I don't know. We've got mailbag
Speaker 1: on the way to bunch of other stuff. Stay here.
Speaker 2: We got this text I saw Bob Dylan last month.
Speaker 2: You have to assume they were a fan and they
Speaker 2: wouldn't have gone.
Speaker 1: Don't do it. I don't doubt it. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we can talk about that in a little bit. Here's
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Speaker 1: my all time favorites. Everybody out I have this tattooed
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Speaker 1: consult it whenever necessary. It is from the Great Friedrich
Speaker 1: August von Hayek. Emergencies in quotes have always been the
Speaker 1: pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Speaker 1: We haven't done. Emergencies have always been the pretext for
Speaker 1: taking away your rights. We haven't done.
Speaker 2: The Washington Post exclusive that didn't get enough attention this
Speaker 2: week because of all the other news. The facial recognition
Speaker 2: they were doing in New Orleans after that car attack
Speaker 2: killed all those people, that had never been done at
Speaker 2: that level anywhere in the United States, and they did
Speaker 2: it secretly and nobody's talking about it at all, and
Speaker 2: an emergency happened, and they did think something nothing that
Speaker 2: had never been done in the United States, right, right.
Speaker 1: I remember the big vote in Congress as whether we
Speaker 1: wanted this. Oh that's right. No, there hasn't been even
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Speaker 1: Marina from San Diego Rights weren't of guys on your
Speaker 1: discussion about Chinese buys at Stanford University and other universities
Speaker 1: trying to find out all our secrets. I say, tell
Speaker 1: she's in pin the big one. It'll ruin his day.
Speaker 1: You know why she You know why America is so
Speaker 1: successful and kicks your ass. Here's the big secret, freedom beach, liberty.
Speaker 1: Remember you told them to resist their desire for freedom
Speaker 1: without freedom of all the secrets in the world. Aren't
Speaker 1: going to help you, bro, So suck it. Wow. Then
Speaker 1: Marina from San Diego says sorry, sorry for that, she
Speaker 1: just fired up. Way to go, Marina, love it, guys,
Speaker 1: sarcastic screen coming. Oh no, this is from uh Al Nanimus.
Speaker 1: I'm a narcotics investigator down here on the border, and
Speaker 1: if I had a dollar for every time I was
Speaker 1: lied to, I would have already comfortably retired. Oh my god, sir,
Speaker 1: I had no idea there were seventy five kilos of
Speaker 1: coke hidden in my car when I crossed the border.
Speaker 1: They all say. But literally everything else I'm seeing would
Speaker 1: lead me to believe that you did know. Hm, maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe I'm being lied to. Come on, Jake Tapper,
Speaker 1: give me a break. I got more on that. Ezra
Speaker 1: Klein in the New York Times some interesting stuff on that.
Speaker 1: He interviewed. Jake Tapper. You know, that's a hell of
Speaker 1: a person to look into it, Ezra Kleine, But so Jed,
Speaker 1: here's a thought starter for you, my friend. Picture one
Speaker 1: of those dope smugglers on the border you're talking about,
Speaker 1: who sincerely had convinced himself that there was no coke
Speaker 1: in his car even though he'd loaded it. That's the
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper story. Yeah right, no kidding. Let's see, nobody
Speaker 1: elected Elon Musk Hey, big beautiful Jack and Joe. Uh
Speaker 1: maybe I I haven't seen it yet. Uh where are
Speaker 1: all those angry concerned citizens or are yelling about Elon
Speaker 1: not being elected when you have undeniable evidence that during
Speaker 1: the Biden president, see, the duly elected president was not
Speaker 1: running the executive branch at all, He wasn't appointing powerful advisors.
Speaker 1: The powerful advisors were operating without his knowledge. But you're
Speaker 1: not worried about that, are you?
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